As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
Of all possible subjects travel is the most difficult for an artist as it...
A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
When I find myself in the company of scientists I feel like a shabby curate...
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of...
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary...
Music can be made anywhere is invisible and does not smell.
No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are...
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but...
A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with...
Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but...
I'll love you dear I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river...
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the...
History is strictly speaking the study of questions the study of answers...
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures so that society...
May it not be that just as we have to have faith in Him God has to have...
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first...
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one...
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money...
A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate...
Art is born of humiliation.
What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is...
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money...
'Healing ' Papa would tell me 'is not a science but the intuitive art of...
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank...
Now is the age of anxiety.
